| S2108 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of Modern Condominiums, Inc.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2558 | Intro
Sine Die | Reduces the term of office members and chair of the Kent County Water District board from seven (7) years to three (3) years, effective September 1, 2018 and limits the chair to three (3) consecutive terms.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2132 | Intro
Sine Die | Places a 20% cap on increases in consecutive real property revaluations commencing 12/31/18 and thereafter with a 3 year waiting period for new construction/additions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2555 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the department of transportation to clear sidewalks of snow and ice on state roads for school bus stops along routes approved by the respective school committees and chief of police for each city and town.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2054 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires carbon-emissions-reduction goals be considered in energy plant siting proceedings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2084 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows the town of Smithfield to charge interest on delinquent water payments at a rate of not more than twelve percent (12%) per annum.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To Senate Housing and Municipal Government Committee |
| S2188 | Intro
Sine Die | Establishes a fee on companies that sell fossil fuels in Rhode Island and also establishes a receipt account to disburse the funds from.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To Senate Environment and Agriculture Committee |
| S2338 | Intro
Sine Die | Council on elementary and secondary education to mandate libraries in high schools to be open one hour before, during and one hour after school.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-28
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2687 | Intro
Sine Die | Voids any provision of a settlement that prohibits disclosure of the factual information related to a claim of sexual harassment, retaliation for reporting sexual harassment, and stalking as against public policy.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
Committee recommended Substitute A be held for further study |
| S2450 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the electronic dissemination of images, without consent, of another engaged in sexually explicit conduct or the intimate parts of another, where a reasonable person knows or understands that the image was to remain private.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2321 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies that interconnection and standby transformer costs incurred by any electric distribution co. For BI be charged in transmission rates and socialized across RI and provides for the reimbursement of BI Power Co. By National Grid for such costs...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2407 | Intro
Sine Die | Includes in the practice of physical therapy ordering diagnostic images and studies provided they are performed and interpreted by other licensed health care professionals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2584 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires Internet service providers to provide digital blocking of sexual content and patently offensive material. It would allow consumers to deactivate digital block upon payment of a twenty dollar ($20.00) fee.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
Withdrawn at sponsor's request (03/27/2018) |
| S2090 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the use of electro shock therapy on children under the age of sixteen (16).
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2535 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires prescription drug manufacturers to file a detailed, updated list of each pharmaceutical sales representative and to pay an annual fee for each name listed with the department of business regulation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2076 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for the licensing and regulation of central service technicians.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2542 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits payments to parents who serve as certified nursing assistant caregiver for their children.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-27
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2043 | Pass | To Vacate The Forfeiture Or Revocation Of The Charter Of Joseph Merritt & Company, Incorporated
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
Effective without Governor's signature |
| S2153 | Engross
Sine Die | Raises the juror's fees for each day's attendance on the superior court to twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per day commencing July 1, 2019, and increase to thirty-five dollars ($35.00) per day commencing July 1, 2020 and thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2302 | Engross
Sine Die | Creates joint committee to compile suggestions for repeal of statutes, regulations, and executive orders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-23
To House Judiciary Committee |
| S2544 | Intro
Sine Die | Limits copays, coinsurance or office deductible for services of a physical therapist to the amount authorized for medical osteopathic physician office visits.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2402 | Engross
Sine Die | Requires managed care organizations to consult with the EOHHS to develop incentives for nursing facilities that demonstrate lower direct care staff turnover.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To House Health, Education and Welfare Committee |
| S2404 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides for consumer protection in eye care services by developing standards and enforcement protocols related to the utilization of emergent technologies in the provision of eye care services and for the delegation of eye car services by providers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2323 | Intro
Sine Die | Exempts natural hair braiders from the requirement to be licensed as hairdressers or cosmeticians, and defines the practice of natural hair braiding.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2605 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires all persons or entities caring for or having custody of an animal to report animal abuse, cruel neglect or abandonment to the police.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2536 | Intro
Sine Die | Renders participating provider contracts between health insurance carriers/health plans with health care providers covered by group/facility agreements binding on all licensed providers without need for individual contracts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2101 | Intro
Sine Die | Redefines "first-time offender" and would permit individuals with a record of up to two (2) misdemeanor convictions to be eligible for expungement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2583 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals section 12-7-9 ("conditions justifying force dangerous to life").
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2398 | Intro
Sine Die | Allows small business employers to purchase health insurance for its employees through the state employee group plan.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Health and Human Services Committee |
| S2416 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the conditions of bail and recognizance to permit the release of a person charged with a misdemeanor without financial conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2117 | Intro
Sine Die | Adds electronic nicotine-delivery systems to the definition of "Tobacco" for tax purposes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2337 | Intro
Sine Die | Deletes the phrase "crime of moral turpitude" as a cause for denying or revoking a license of various businesses and professions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2590 | Intro
Sine Die | Removes the requirement that the attorney general consent to a deferment of sentencing in a written deferral agreement and grant the superior court traditional discretion in sentencing matters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2296 | Intro
Sine Die | Prohibits the practice of declawing cats (onychectomy) or any partial or complete phalangectomy(s) or tendonectomy(s) on cats.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2121 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires little cigars tax be imposed in the same manner as cigarette tax with twenty-five percent (25%) of revenue applied to smoking cessation programs and that little cigars be sold in packs of twenty (20) or more.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-22
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2622 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that a credit reporting agency may not charge a consumer any fee in connection with the placement, temporary lifting or permanent removal of a credit security freeze.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2331 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the co-operation requirement public utilities have by law with contractors involved in state construction projects to municipal, political subdivisions and other quasi-governmental agencies.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2501 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires the state to pay the energy costs necessary to supply public street lighting if the local utility district fails to do so.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2498 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires public utilities or its contractors to reimburse excavators for lost time expense incurred as a result of incorrect markings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Commerce Committee |
| S2647 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires public schools, including charter schools, to begin the school year after Labor Day commencing in the school year 2019-2020.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2708 | Intro
Sine Die | Requires most employers in Rhode Island to participate in the E/Verify employment authorization program and establishes deadlines to do so.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2692 | Intro
Sine Die | Clarifies the procedures for seeking a protective order from district or family court and the requirements of the surrender of any firearms. Repeals outdated family court form for complaints for protection from abuse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2698 | Intro
Sine Die | Extends the immunity from liability for ordinary negligence to any person who uses an automated external defibrillator or performs cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2666 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the provisions of the general laws which created the "Rhode Island Bridge Replacement, Reconstruction, and Maintenance Fund Act of 2016" ("Rhode Works"), which would have imposed tolls on large commercial trucks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2661 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeals the state estate tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2685 | Intro
Sine Die | Amends the process by which the house and senate consider and amend the state budget.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| S2657 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that corporations with less than fifty (50) employees shall not be subject to the four hundred dollar ($400) minimum corporate tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2648 | Intro
Sine Die | Permits the Cumberland Town Council to establish limits on the number of students from the Cumberland school district who may enroll in any charter public school, Davies, and the Met Center.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| S2662 | Intro
Sine Die | Provides that for FY 2019, the state pays the local share or contribution of charter public school tuition for its students in excess of 5% of the average of all pupils within school districts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
| S2655 | Intro
Sine Die | Increases the total aggregate amount of tax credits for a business entity not to exceed $5,000,000 in fiscal year 2019.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2018-03-20
To Senate Finance Committee |
